Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.